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Previously on seaquest...

What do you think of my comet now?

Better keep an eye on it.

This one who's after me is a stormer--

not overly bright, but good at his work.

Grrr!

Only ones in danger

are those standing in the way of my execution.

You're a criminal?

In my world, yes, I guess I am.

Hyperion is a planet of conquest,

forever at war with itself

and those around it.

My teachings in tolerance and antiexpansion

branded me a traitor,

for which I was sentenced to death.

Thank god you're all so stupid.

You mean, how will I see to get there?

I was kind of hoping you'd drive, Scott.

Come with me, my friend.

Let's go in search of other worlds.

Wonder if he'll come back.

Depends on what he finds out there.

O.k., what about this one?

Moldy sneeze.

Moldy sneeze?

Yes.

Moldy sneeze.

This guy's got names for 50 types of fish

we haven't even classified,

and the only problem is

there's no way to translate them.

It's fascinating, Lucas.

I'll try to remember that

next time I date an ickyologist.

That's ichthyologist, Tony.

Ha! Not where I'm from.

Am I seeing things?

Yes. You're seeing commander Keller.

I need your help.

If you can hear this transmission,

if any part of this message is getting through,

meet me at the Christmas tree quickly.

Sorry I have to ask you,

but please.

Don't forget organa watt.

It's our only chance, Nathan.

Our lives depend on it.

[Intercom buzzes]

Bridger.

[Ford] Captain, we just saw something

on the bridge.

We're getting reports from around the boat.

Did it look like Scott Keller?

You saw it, too?

Oh, I'd say so.

He's appeared to everybody who knew him.

Assemble the crew on the double.

He said meet him at a Christmas tree?

Yeah. After we recovered him from the Mars probe,

I showed him a chart of where we'd found him

and told him we'd nicknamed the canyon Christmas tree

because it had so many branches.

So only you know that.

So we'll meet him there.

Yeah, but what's an organa watt?

Oh, yeah.

Organa watt.

She was the woman who ran the women's dorm

at the academy.

One night Scott ate a dozen and a half

of her terrible cookies to keep her busy

while I snuck a girl out the back way.

He said I owed him big time for that,

and he was going to wait

for a life-or-death situation to hand in his chip.

I guess this is it, huh?

We're nearing the Christmas tree trench, sir.

We picking up anything?

Just static.

It's almost like we're being jammed.

Could we punch out a message

if we had to?

No.

[Echoing thud]

Aah!

Damn! What's that?

Feels like an energy pull.

Get me a wskr view.

I can't. We're losing power.

Emergency power.

Wskr view!

On screen.

Oh, my god.

What is that?

Captain, I can't control her.

We're rising.

Take her back!

I can't.

Oxygen regeneration's failing.

We're running out of air.

Henderson, sound off.

200 meters...

100...

We're on the surface.

I don't believe it.

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What's doing this?

I think we're making a hyperspace jump.

A what?

It's the only thing that makes sense, commander.

I think I'm getting a signal.

Put it on the screen.

Aye, aye, sir.

What is it?

I don't know how or why, but that's another planet.

O.k., just hang on.

We're going in.

All right, get ready, ready for anything.

What?

Our power's coming back on.

We've got oxygen.

We're wet, captain.

Dive.

Take her down.

Lay her along the bottom.

Captain, I'm picking up something dead ahead.

What the hell is that?

Somebody's idea of a submarine.

And it's docking with our launch bay.

Come on.

Ah, Nathan.

Tobias.

Thank you for coming, my friends.

You didn't give us much choice.

Where's Scott?

Didn't you get his message?

I thought that's why you were here.

Didn't say anything about being transported to another planet.

We didn't have two-way communication equipment to reach you.

There was very little time.

Wendy, is there something wrong?

I just realized you can see.

Yes, well, it's amazing

what a little travel can do for your health,

particularly when there's no longer a need

to pretend you're fully human,

but I will answer all your questions.

First, allow me to present the leaders

of, well, half our nation,

the better half.

[Speaking cratax language]

[Speaking cratax language]

On behalf of the people of hyperion,

thank you for coming

and hearing our plea.

Plea?

For your help, because without it,

both our worlds are going to be destroyed,

yours as well as ours.

After Scott and I left you,

we debated where to go,

what new vistas to see.

I wanted to explore the heart of the galaxy,

but Scott wanted to come here.

I'd been a member of the resistance movement on hyperion,

which is why I fled to earth

and why our rulers, the cratax,

sent that stormer after me.

Scott said if the cratax were so afraid of me,

maybe there was a reason.

Was there?

Our culture had become too advanced

to submit to tyranny any longer.

A civil war had broken out.

The only problem was the resistance couldn't reach the space stations.

Because they were purely military,

they remained in the hands of the cratax,

and they counterattacked by flooding the planet.

Flooding it?

How?

They bombarded it with comets torn

from their orbits around our sun.

Not only did the explosions melt the polar caps,

but the comets themselves

consisted mostly of ice,

which added to the flooding.

In less than a year,

most of our planet was submerged,

which is why we need your help.

There's no way our technology can match yours.

Don't underrate yourselves.

Hyperion is far less advanced than you might think.

Remember, most of our space technology was developed

after Tobias left us,

not even 40 years ahead of you.

True. Our ship is only one on hyperion

that's even capable of interstellar travel,

and we only have that

because the scientists who were building it joined us

when the revolution came.

All the same,

we have nothing to match it.

Oh, but you do. Hyperion was a desert world.

We never had any underwater science at all,

and now that it's flooded,

seaquest represents to us a technology

as powerful and alien

as our spacecraft is to you.

If you could defend our spacecraft's base

against underwater attack,

we might have a chance of winning this war.

Wait a minute.

I don't really think that this is our fight.

Are you so sure?

Yes, I am.

Well, think it through.

The cratax and stormers have destroyed our world.

Even if they win, it's flooded for good.

What are you saying?

They only want it now as a base

to build more ships like ours.

Once they do, they'll conquer earth.

Suppose we choose to make our stand on earth,

build our defenses there.

It's your choice. All we ask

is that you examine the evidence.

If you want to record it

to prove to your leaders

you haven't lost your minds, all the better.

Why hasn't Scott already done that?

Yes, Tobias. Where is Scott right now?

I'm sorry, my friend.

The cratax have taken him hostage.

Hostage?

He was captured while leading a raid

on one of the space stations.

Nathan, I brought you here

because if you help us,

perhaps we'll be able to free him

and end this war.

We'll have to think about this one.

What do we know about our surroundings?

Seems to be like Tobias and his friends said.

We're resting on a Sandy bottom

that's only recently been flooded.

What about their base?

Definitely looks improvised.

Their technology seems to be more primitive than our own.

They were telling the truth.

Maybe.

Are you sensing anything?

All I get is static from all three of them,

but, remember, not even Tobias is really human.

O'Neill, I want you to try and figure out

some way to monitor all communications--

this side, the enemy's side.

I don't want us getting into a fight without a talk.

Aye, aye, sir.

In the meantime,

keep the boat at condition one--easy.

All men at battle stations,

but rotate them so they get some sleep.

Restrict Darwin to the boat.

Very good, sir. Where will you be?

In my quarters,

trying to make some sense of all this.

[Knock knock]

Come in.

[Door opens]

Hi.

Hi.

You're worried about Scott.

And everything else.

They tell me you've known him since the academy.

That's true.

They tell you we used to be in submarines together?

We were,

after we graduated.

Then he opted for outer space,

I opted for inner space.

He had this fabulous career--

martian probe, you know, all that.

Now he's in this cockamamie war that he...

A hostage. Doesn't make any sense, does it?

No...

Not our understanding of it, anyway.

Are you all right?

You reading me?

It's hard not to.

If you're reading me, you know I'm very confused.

I haven't an idea which way to turn.

Well, how could you?

None of us know anything about this place,

but I'll tell you one thing.

No matter what decision you make,

none of us will feel like you let us down.

[Intercom buzzes]

Bridger.

[Ford] Captain, you better come to the bridge.

What's up?

I'm not sure, but I think we're under attack.

Where's Tobias?

Coming from sea deck.

His delegation just left for their mothership.

I've got a wskr view of the contact.

A warship?

It's got to be.

What is that?

A katon--the best underseas weapon the cratax have.

O'Neill, any answer to our call?

Negative, sir.

11,000 meters and closing.

It's accelerating.

Captain, I need an order.

Full ahead.

Declare the contact hostile.

Declaring contact hostile.

Torpedoes up. Lasers up.

Target locked.

We have a firing solution.

7,000 meters and closing.

6,000.

It's turning towards us. Captain, it's firing.

Fire intercepts.

Fire torpedoes.

Torpedoes away.

Intercepts away.

Left hard rudder. All ahead emergency.

Interception in 5...

In 4...

3...2...

1...

Interception.

Torpedoes closing on target.

Impact.

All targets destroyed.

Contact board is clear.

No bogies, no bandits.

I'm getting a signal. It's right above us.

Let's see it.

Aye, sir.

[Speaking cratax language]

What's he saying?

Because you have chosen to come from earth today

and fight with us,

we have a gift for you.

I'm sorry, Nathan.

I should have never got you into this.

[Speaking cratax]

The stormer says to say goodbye.

Tell him we want to talk.

[Speaking cratax language]

[Speaking cratax language]

Grrr!

I'm so sorry, Nathan.

I thought with you here,

they'd never dare to kill him.

Mr. Piccolo.

Sir.

Ready my shuttle, please.

Time to meet their war council.

These charts represent

all that's left of hyperion.

That's it? One colony?

Doesn't seem that big.

The tunnels run for thousands of meters into the bedrock.

They're large enough to hold most of our population--

500,000 people.

500?

Out of how many?

4 billion.

Nothing's worth that many lives.

You don't understand.

We've never had the choice to surrender.

Our species is more specialized than yours.

You've met our stormer form.

Yeah, all appetite and bad moods.

And totally dedicated to killing.

That's all that's left on the cratax side,

and that's all they want left.

They slaughter anybody else they get their hands on.

That's why we've retreated beneath the sea.

[Speaking cratax language]

What is she saying?

She's thanking you for saving us today.

Those katons were searching for this colony.

Did you make this yourself?

[Speaking cratax language]

Yes, it shows her favorite oasis

before the land was flooded.

She wants you to have it.

Thank you.

You know what, honey?

The water isn't really that deep.

Maybe after the war's over,

we can rebuild some land for you.

How's that sound?

This is why we brought you here.

It's the largest comet in our planetary system.

So large, in fact,

you can see it for years at a time

from the planet's surface.

Its impact will be well more than enough

to destroy our last colony.

The cratax are using tractor beams

mounted on their space stations

to maneuver it into place for months.

It should strike us in less than a day.

I don't understand what it is we can do.

Our ship is virtually unarmed,

but it does have one advantage.

Its tractor beams.

Yes. And?

If they're strong enough to lift seaquest,

they may be strong enough to overcome the tractor beams

the cratax are using.

Wish you'd been one of my university students.

You're right.

The cratax have no one ship as powerful as ours.

The problem is to use our beams at full strength

requires an enormous reaction mass,

far more than the ship can carry.

We have to stay moored to this base

and draw our energy from the planet itself,

or we have no chance at all.

So we protect you from an underwater attack

while you...What?

Crash it into the other side?

Oh, Nathan, there is no other side,

at least not on the surface of this planet.

Remember, there are no civilian cratax,

only generals and stormers.

No. We plan to use our tractor beams

to tear the comet apart.

And the fragments will sweep the cratax

and their space stations out of orbit

like a giant meteor shower...

Then perhaps that little girl

will see the daylight again.

And your children will never have to live like this.

Sir.

Would you show Dr. Leconte

to the guest quarters?

He's going to be staying for a while.

You'll be available for dinner?

Of course.

Well, what do we think?

Seems straightforward. It's a peacekeeping mission.

We defend the civilians while they resolve their war.

Is that what you think?

They're still blocking me from their minds.

There's nothing on our wavelength.

I don't know. That child came through loud and clear.

Wait, Lucas. What are you saying?

I was just thinking

how everything is a kludge--

improvised, but not quite fitting together.

They're at war, Lucas.

There's hardly anything left.

I feel that things are a bit more alien than they appear.

Well, that may be,

but maybe we'll get lucky

and find a communications module

on that katon.

You still want to talk to the other side?

Oh, yeah, I do.

You can't reason with someone who'd destroy a planet.

You saw what they did to Scott.

There's got to be people among them who want out.

Piccolo.

I want you and Darwin

to make a sweep of that katon that we torpedoed.

If there's anything that resembles a communications module,

let me know.

Aye, aye.

Darwin...

I think I found it.

Over here.

[Squealing]

Oh, yeah.

Look at that.

Wow.

We'll start in the front, o.K.?

[Squeals]

Just be careful.

Did we hear from piccolo?

They finished with the forward part of the hunter-killer

but haven't found anything like a radio yet.

That's funny.

What's funny?

Darwin was sniffing out

the back part of the wreckage.

Now they're gone.

Break radio silence.

I want to hear where they are.

Tony, Tony, come in. Where are you, guy?

Tony.

Captain, the indictors are showing

they're entering the aqua tubes,

headed for sea deck.

Tony, do you read?

What'd you find out?

We found something in the wreckage, captain.

What?

Not what, who.

O.k., Darwin, the coast is clear.

All right. Easy, easy.

[Coughing]

Scott.

[Breathing heavily]

Nathan.

Listen to me.

In case you guys haven't figured it out yet,

you've been fighting for the wrong side.

I don't know whether to give you a hug

or a swift kick.

Good to see you, too.

Luckily, you're not a better shot.

Did you guys take a wrong turn?

This is Scott, isn't it?

I did a deep scan. It is him.

No stormer's controlling him.

The execution tape is a complete fake.

You never were under attack.

We didn't even know the seaquest was here.

We were trying to take out the mothership

while there was still time.

Time?

They told you about the comet, didn't they?

They told us they were trying to ward it off.

I bet they said a lot of things.

Did they tell you the planet's underwater

because of a civil war,

that soon resistance will be wiped out

and all that'll be left are the cratax?

Well, most of that's true.

Only they left out one thing.

They're the cratax.

They don't look like stormers.

Of course not.

The stormers are the foot soldiers.

They're bred for courage and ferocity.

You were talking to the cratax themselves.

They're not fighters.

They're politicians and looters.

I thought we weren't in Kansas anymore.

What's this about looters?

Everything they got

has been stolen from other planets--

their technology, this mothership.

The same way they got seaquest.

They didn't build that ship?

How? They've killed most of their scientists.

They hatched a stormer pod

and then brought it here from another planet.

So that's why everything looked like a kludge.

What about that colony over there?

There's no colony.

That's just a docking station

so they can refuel it from the planet's core.

But we met ordinary people.

Slaves brought down from a space station

to fool all of you.

The only colony left is on the other side of the planet,

being held by the resistance.

It is the smartest way to lie--tell the truth...

Except for the parts that matter.

Why did Tobias go over?

He didn't.

He was captured trying to seize the mothership.

They're holding him on it now

while they drain his memory dry.

You were never talking to Tobias.

You were talking to a stormer.

I want to talk to this Tobias clone now.

No, Nathan.

That comet is incoming.

If we don't stop them, they'll crash

and wipe out what's left of the resistance.

Then they're coming after earth.

Did Tobias have a plan?

He saw a similar ship on tau ceti.

He thinks he can fly it.

Where are they keeping him?

Defectors from the cratax

think he's being held

in the lower part of the ship.

Tobias, come in.

The captain will be here in just a minute.

I can't tell you

how excited our leadership is.

This is the first good news

they've had in months.

Delighted to hear that. Our other guest will be, too.

Scott.

I thought you were dead.

You ought to know.

Who are you-- ka'klax'a'toh?

Tray'zil?

You got to be somebody from counter-intelligence.

You're the one that's been taken.

He's got a stormer inside him.

What if I said you were lying?

Then I say you'll die with me.

Fire!

Check him!

He's out cold.

What's this?

A personal communicator.

He's been using it every 70 minutes or so.

Corresponds to a hyperion hour.

He's probably been checking in.

Let's put him on ice.

The arming key.

The new unlock code

is 8-2, 6-2, 4-2.

Whatever you do,

don't surrender the seaquest.

Aye, aye, sir.

Brody...

Commence operations.

Alpha team!

Bravo team!

By the numbers!

Man your craft! Let's go!

Move it!

Move it, move it! Move it!

The board's green, sir.

You're clear to launch.

Launching, now!

500 meters and closing.

Lock and load!

300!

Arming laser dock!

Brace for docking.

Port sealed.

Let's go! Go! Go!

Bravo team, secure the corridors!

Alpha team, follow me!

You two, hold position.

You're with me.

Look out!

Captain, over here!

Blow it.

[Beeping]

Fire in the hole!

Tobias.

You're alive.

Nathan.

Check him out.

Who am I? No, don't say it.

Focus on your memories of us.

Let me hear the human side of your brain.

Tell me if you're free.

I can read his mind. He's clear.

How do we get control of this ship?

You can't.

They've armored the command decks.

There's no way through.

There's got to be something we can do.

There is.

Destroy it.

Destroy it completely before they steer the comet in.

This ship's the only thing keeping them in power.

Blow the plasma core.

So we bought a one-way ticket here.

There's no way home.

You have any better idea?

Are you putting it to a vote, in the Navy?

You're not in the Navy now.

What the hell?

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Take him out.

Move it! Move it!

Double time!

Move it!

Bravo team, we're pulling out in two minutes.

That's music to my ears, lieutenant.

Two minutes.

We'll need charges there...

There...

And there.

Sir, this is the detonator.

The charges are on a fail-safe switch-- touch it, they'll blow.

Let's go.

Piccolo, we're clear.

Repeat. We are clear. Head for the shuttle.

Come on, let's go! Let's go!

Coming your way!

Oh, man, am I happy to see you.

Aah!

Let's go!

Let's move! They're behind us.

Move it!

Faster! Faster!

Look out! Behind you!

Aah!

Take cover!

Piccolo, watch the left!

I need some help here.

It's Ariel.

Come on!

Brody, watch your back!

Let's go!

No!

I can't hold them back!

They're everywhere.

Watch out! Watch out!

I got them on the left.

Kar'ni'kar! Kar!

I got three.

[Breathing heavily]

They torched the shuttle.

Watch out up ahead!

This is it, isn't it?

It looks that way.

Now! Now!

They're coming through!

Commander, listen.

We are completely cut off.

We're coming in.

No, you can't. There's nothing you can do for us,

but stop this mothership any way you can.

Do you hear me? Any way you can.

You know what they say--

always kill two birds with one stone.

All ahead emergency!

Darwin, leave the boat.

Follow Lucas away from here.

Whoa. Wait a minute.

Take the stinger and go.

There's a tiny point of land, south-southwest of here.

I'm going to stay here.

I'm going to fight.

No. Dagwood, get him in the stinger.

No, dagwood, don't do this.

Sorry, Lucas.

If commander Ford said for you to go,

you go.

Commander.

Lucas.

Just go.

Dagwood.

Aah!

He's hit!

I got him.

Tony, take to the right!

Everybody fall back!

Come on!

Don't let them pass!

Come on!

Stinger's clear.

Aim us for where they docked the mothership.

Computer.

Computer on.

Arm all weapons. Unlock code.

8-2, 6-2, 4-2.

Permissive action link confirmed.

Conventional weapons armed.

Nuclear weapons armed.

Pulse energy weapons armed.

Target the mothership above our people's heads.

We'll try to flood out the stormers.

Aye, aye, sir.

Lasers up.

Torpedoes up.

What's that?

A barrier mine.

Huh.

I guess they had some underwater technology after all.

Oh, my god.

Somebody's at the wall!

Reload! Can't. Losing charge.

You'll have to hold them.

All right, watch it!

Aah!

There's too many of them!

Come on, Ortiz!

Jonathan.

Jonathan.

We're lifting off.

It's terminal maneuvers to bring the comet in.

Lucas.

Lucas, can you hear me?

I hear you. I'm coming back.

No. There's nothing you can do for us.

What's happened to the seaquest?

She's down. She's been hulled.

We've had it, kiddo.

You're on your own now, Lucas.

Just don't let them take away what you believe.

Do you understand me?

Not what you believe.

Tell them what's happened here today.

Behind you! They're coming through!

Captain?

Piccolo, watch the left!

We've got nowhere left to go, cap.

It's time.

[Beeping]

Aah!

[Squealing]

Well, at least Darwin's o.K.

And our friends?

Well, the comet passed without hitting us.

If Scott was right,

that means we've won.

So...

So we have to find fuel for the stinger,

and we'll go looking for survivors.

They can't all be dead.

They can't be dead.

We'll find them,

I swear to god.

And if we don't?

Then we'll rebuild here.

Someday we'll carry their story back to earth.

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These are Asian otters.

100 years ago, cousins of these, sea otters,

were hunted nearly to extinction for their fur.

Sea otters rely solely on their fur for warmth.

With more than a half million hairs per square inch,

they spend 50% of their time grooming themselves,

much like actors.

Sea otters are still considered threatened,

the greatest dangers being oil spills and other human activities.

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